Photo via Post Foods
Did you know that February 7th is National Ice Cream for Breakfast Day? I know, I know: best holiday ever. Finally, a reason for ice cream stores to open early! Because one of my true laments in life is that ice cream stores open too late. Surely I'm not the only one who craves ice cream at 9:00 in the morning, right?
But I digress. To celebrate this wondrous day, I'd like to present an easy way to "breakfast" up your ice cream--by adding Grape Nuts.
Believe it or not, Grape Nuts ice cream not only exists, but can be quite common in parts of New England. Weird as it might sound, it works: the ice cream basically does to grape nuts what takes milk at least 40 minutes to do: it softens it, so that you can eat and enjoy the nutty, somewhat wholesome flavor without breaking your teeth. It works very nicely as an ice cream flavor.
If you're not in New England, however, you can do it the easy DIY way, by mixing Grape-Nuts into existing vanilla ice cream. Here's how.
Easy d.i.y. Grape-Nuts Ice Cream
Adapted from Post Foods
- 1/2 cup Grape-Nuts Cereal
- 1 pint (2 cups) vanilla ice cream, softened
- Additional mix-ins of your choice: caramel, chocolate chips, etc.
Procedure
- Mix the cereal and softened ice cream in freezer proof bowl until the cereal is equally dispersed; cover.
- Freeze until firm.
- Store leftovers in freezer.